| yharrow | hey guys | 15:50 |
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| Interruptus | hola yharrow | 15:59 |
| yharrow | hey Interruptus :D | 16:10 |
| yharrow | hows it going | 16:11 |
| Interruptus | not too bad | 16:11 |
| Interruptus | how yours? | 16:11 |
| yharrow | ok doing a little FPS atm | 16:11 |
| yharrow | and lurking here of course | 16:11 |
| yharrow | I noticed that there hasnt been much activity with the team since about 2010 at least according to the wiki | 16:12 |
| yharrow | Is that accurate? | 16:12 |
| yharrow | Either way, I'd like to help the team in some way if I can. | 16:13 |
| Interruptus | this place is quite dead | 16:13 |
| yharrow | I just don't know who to ask and you are the only one I see online | 16:13 |
| Interruptus | the big years was about 4 years ago | 16:13 |
| yharrow | yeh I noticed xD | 16:13 |
| yharrow | at least in IRC | 16:13 |
| yharrow | well tbh with steam coming out with a version for linux, I think ubuntu has alot of doors opened for it. | 16:14 |
| Interruptus | im not too much into gams | 16:14 |
| Interruptus | games | 16:14 |
| Interruptus | and im using fedora and debian mainly | 16:14 |
| yharrow | Yes, but its a major factor that affects popularity and rate of adoption among common users | 16:14 |
| yharrow | I used so many distros I cant remember all the names. But all common ppl care about is ease of use | 16:15 |
| Interruptus | indeed | 16:15 |
| yharrow | and the more people use linux, the better it is for hte whole eco system | 16:15 |
| yharrow | thats why I got into ubuntu in the first place | 16:15 |
| yharrow | because of its potential to bring good to all of us | 16:15 |
| Interruptus | once my gf laptop got thrashed , i gave her mine | 16:15 |
| yharrow | xD | 16:15 |
| Interruptus | she almost threw a shoe over me | 16:15 |
| yharrow | lmao | 16:16 |
| yharrow | which distro? | 16:16 |
| yharrow | debian? | 16:16 |
| yharrow | or gentoo? | 16:16 |
| Interruptus | fedora | 16:16 |
| yharrow | :P | 16:16 |
| yharrow | oh ok | 16:16 |
| yharrow | if u wnat her to throw u out, give her gentoo | 16:16 |
| Interruptus | lol, this is on a border of masochism | 16:16 |
| Interruptus | even for me | 16:16 |
| yharrow | lmao | 16:16 |
| yharrow | xD | 16:16 |
| yharrow | exactly | 16:16 |
| yharrow | but it gives the community charcter | 16:17 |
| yharrow | what would sane ppl be without crazies? | 16:17 |
| Interruptus | i did try gentoo | 16:19 |
| yharrow | i never did, wasnt brave enough | 16:19 |
| Interruptus | i watched the computer compiling stuff until i went a sleep sitting | 16:19 |
| yharrow | but of course i know some pp lhave legitimate reasons for trying it | 16:19 |
| yharrow | lol | 16:19 |
| yharrow | gentoo in some ways is the extreme example of a custom sports car | 16:20 |
| yharrow | except for operating systems | 16:20 |
| yharrow | The problem with ubuntu, was that even though it was the best, it still wasnt good enough. And so it lost momentum | 16:21 |
| yharrow | but considering the unique market these days | 16:21 |
| Interruptus | i dont like when the release masters of the distro pushing me stuff that i dont want and i dont need | 16:21 |
| Interruptus | alot of stuff | 16:21 |
| yharrow | with the advent of mobile computing and the adoption of linux by popular distirbutors of applicaitons of games | 16:22 |
| yharrow | and games* | 16:22 |
| yharrow | yes but if you only upgrade | 16:22 |
| yharrow | and dont reinstall | 16:22 |
| yharrow | u wont get pushed too much afaik | 16:22 |
| Interruptus | my debian is 13 yrs old | 16:23 |
| Interruptus | and counting | 16:23 |
| Interruptus | so many hardware parts went in and out | 16:23 |
| Interruptus | and so many upgrades i did | 16:23 |
| Interruptus | its still standing and serving | 16:23 |
| Interruptus | just like toyota hilux | 16:24 |
| yharrow | honestly I never had too much trouble with upgrading ubuntu either after a certain point | 16:24 |
| yharrow | haha xD | 16:24 |
| yharrow | ubuntu used to do a crappy job at upgrading but its pretty smooth these days | 16:24 |
| Interruptus | never had any success upgrading ubuntu | 16:25 |
| yharrow | when did you try | 16:25 |
| Interruptus | 8.04 9.04 | 16:25 |
| Interruptus | 9.10 | 16:25 |
| Interruptus | 10.04 | 16:25 |
| Interruptus | 10.10 | 16:25 |
| yharrow | sorry got distracted | 16:36 |
| yharrow | i think around 10.10 is when things started tgetting better but then again some machines always had problems | 16:37 |
| yharrow | either way, my policy with linux has alwys been use what works | 16:37 |
| yharrow | I think when steam comes out for linux alot of ppl will jump back on the linux ship. I just wanted to get a head start :P | 16:38 |
| yharrow | because honestly if theres no ship for ppl to catch we could miss an oppurtunity for linux | 16:38 |
| yharrow | despite all the crap linux makes me take I still believe in it | 16:38 |
| yharrow | especially with MS getting all greedy with its App Store | 16:38 |
| Interruptus | i always had troubles with exotic HW products | 16:39 |
| Interruptus | like | 16:39 |
| Interruptus | FC cards | 16:39 |
| Interruptus | SCSI controllers | 16:39 |
| Interruptus | SAS controllers | 16:39 |
| Interruptus | i had to get the FW myself and load it | 16:39 |
| yharrow | yeh no noob will evr have the patience to do that | 16:45 |
| yharrow | i think mark shuttleworth is such a visionary that ppl still dont understand his vision | 16:46 |
| yharrow | 5 years ago or even 2 years ago most ppl would have put a 100 dollar bet that linux would never have any quality games. but these days top tier producers are devloping for linux | 16:47 |
| yharrow | but even that is just a stepping stone for the final goal | 16:48 |
| yharrow | which I believe is the ultimate freedom of software and information | 16:49 |
| yharrow | the fact that the richest man in the world made his fortune on a single product which isnt even physical is something to think about | 16:49 |
| yharrow | and yes there are many issues like yopu mentioned just before with hardware | 16:51 |
| yharrow | but that is all changing | 16:51 |
| yharrow | some OS purists may not like it, but the more large companies get involved, the better hardware support gets | 16:51 |
| yharrow | How long have you used linux for? | 17:06 |
| Interruptus | since 1999 | 17:27 |
| yharrow_mobile | testing | 18:55 |
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